Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval Kashmir

Contemplative traditions focused on Śiva and the Goddess developed during the medieval or post-Gupta period in Kashmir, although not limited to that region. In this paper I present textual accounts of a kind of meditation and its accompanying doctrine geared towards liberation conceptualized as an e...

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Main Author: Flood, Gavin 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2023
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 4
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kashmir / Abhinavagupta 950-1020 / Kṣemarāja ca. 11. Jh. / Śakta / Meditation / Consciousness
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
TE Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Meditation
B Awareness
B Śākta-Śaiva
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Summary:Contemplative traditions focused on Śiva and the Goddess developed during the medieval or post-Gupta period in Kashmir, although not limited to that region. In this paper I present textual accounts of a kind of meditation and its accompanying doctrine geared towards liberation conceptualized as an expanded awareness described in Śākta-Śaiva scriptures. This Śākta-Śaiva tradition has scriptural authority in revealed texts and its vision is articulated in the philosophical discourse of the Śākta-Śaiva philosophers, Abhinavagupta and Kṣemarāja. It is the Śākta-Śaiva idea of meditation as the realization of an innate purity of awareness which is also an expanded awareness that I wish to examine.
ISSN:2363-6696
Contains:Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.46586/er.14.2023.10995